NHS: Finance
(asked on 24th January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2019 to Question 209341 on NHS Finance, and with reference to paragraph 5.10 of the Budget 2018 Red Book, what proportion of the NHS budget is (a) spent on (b) for mental health services; what (c) proportion of the NHS budget he plans to spend on and (d) estimate he has made of the NHS budget for mental health services in 2023-24; and if he will make a statement.
For 2017/18, the most recent year available, the spend on mental health overall, and as a proportion of the overall National Health Service budget, is shown in the following table. This gives information on the mental health expenditure recorded by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and specialised commissioned services.
NHS England mental health spend, as a proportion of overall health spend 2017/18
| CCG mental health spend | Specialised mental health spend | Total CCG and specialised mental health | CCG and Specialised mental spend as a % of allocation |
| £ million | £ million | £ million |
|
2017/18 | 10,080 | 1,896 | 11,976 | 13.3% |
Source: NHS England
The 2018 Budget confirmed that spend on mental health services will grow as a share of the overall NHS budget over the next five years. The Department does not hold the requested estimated breakdown of future funding into mental health services specifically. How future NHS budgets will be spent will depend on the commissioning decisions of individual commissioner organisations.